Fiasco

FEATURED ARTICLES ABOUT FIASCO - PAGE 3

What has happened to our system of justice? I am appalled by the O.J. Simpson circus, the Baby Richard travesty and the Jeanine Nicarico fiasco. I don't know how certain lawyers and judges are able to sleep at night. My heart goes out to all the victims and their families.

Now that the yellow ribbons are slowly coming down, it is time to ponder the whole post-war fiasco. A decade hence this fad will appear to have been a strange, if not weird, aberration. One cannot examine the post-war fiasco without looking for basic motivations for another exaggerated form of patriotism: the overdone military parades. We need to go to the sociologists, the psychiatrists, the psychologists-the thinkers and scholars-to find the roots for such behavior. It is more than patriotism gone berserk, but there are underlying motivations that are far from healthy.

Chalk one up for the governor after that fiasco with seat belts and Saturn. His signing of the bill to limit litigation in malpractice suits should prove to be a boon for everyone except the tort lawyers now crying into their briefs. It's about time somebody threw a block at barristers who in search of the easy buck will file even the most frivolous of suits.

I'm one of those people who has been scraping by for a couple years without a decent job. Our savings have been depleted. Our house and wardrobes are sadly neglected. Our marriage is under intense strain. We are deeper in the hole each week, and I keep thinking about all the billions President Bush has siphoned from our economy to fund his fiasco in Iraq. Enough already.

This "diversion" Mr. Lincicome refers to was established as a sport long before he was born and made popular by one Sonja Henie. It was, perhaps, made "marketable" to the deplorable tendencies of the modern network by the Kerrigan-Harding fiasco, but "marketable" and "established" are two radically different concepts. Lincicome should limit himself to commentary on sports where grunting, belching and scratching one's crotch are deemed to be worthy social skills.

I have yet to hear one word uttered from the Halas/McCaskey family regarding the Tank Johnson fiasco. Papa Bear George Halas and his son "Muggsy" must be turning over in their graves. I guarantee you George Halas would have sent Johnson packing with a swift boot in the butt after his first indiscretion. Come on, Virginia. Let's show some of the old Halas pride and guts and get rid of him, money be dammed.

Though her personal life is frequent tabloid fodder, this time Lindsay Lohan's fashion sense took a beating. Hired as artistic adviser to fashion house Emanuel Ungaro, Lohan left "several people in the audience aghast" with her styles at Ungaro's show Sunday at Paris Fashion Week, The New York Times reported. The Washington Post called the show "a cynical fiasco."

If I could use the appropriate words to properly convey just how bad this movie is, this review would be a string of expletives so long that its power would reanimate the great cursing comic Lenny Bruce. "Elizabethtown" is among the worst films I've ever seen. Writer/director Cameron Crowe's everyman is an executive named Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) who travels to Kentucky to recover his father's body. Drew designed the "Spasmodica" shoe, which has lost his company a billion dollars--making his character about as tangible as a alien.

In a day or so, Dusty Baker and his coaching staff probably will be out of jobs. Andy MacPhail and Jim Hendry will still be on their speakerphones. How they can still have their jobs after the artistic fiasco they have orchestrated is a classic example of "it's not what you know but who you know." So long, Dusty, and for what it means, this longtime Cubs fan believes you did a good job as Cubs manager and you should be commended for the class, professionalism and dignity you exhibited in very trying circumstances.

The March 31 letter voiced the need for education and safety on the part of motorcycle riders, but when I called the University of Illinois-Urbana, they informed me that this year's motorcycle-rider course was cancelled for lack of funding. Springfield probably thinks that passing another law like our current seatbelt fiasco is better than teaching people the need for safe driving. That's probably why the seatbelt law is so poorly respected and enforced. These people in office are the ones who need helmets to protect themselves from their bouncing checks and the wrath of the voters.